Don't expect anything different up here...
There is game, but you'll work for it.
There is game, but you'll work for it.
Grand River/ Hambden Orchard/ Auburn Marsh
Hi, Im new to the forum. Am coming up from Florida last week October, plan on hunting one or more of these areas for waterfowl/ fall turkey. Not looking for advice on hot spots, but just want to know if they are at least decent for a chance at game. Most public areas in South Florida are overhunted and very little game is left.
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Dont be afraid to drive a little.
Here is one of Ohio's best kept secret, check it out.
http://parks.ohiodnr.gov/grandlakestmarys#activities
Here is one of Ohio's best kept secret, check it out.
http://parks.ohiodnr.gov/grandlakestmarys#activities
Don't even bother with Hambden Orchard or Auburn Marsh
Are they overhunted?Don't even bother with Hambden Orchard or Auburn Marsh
Wow! That bad?
Absolutely,all three areas can be over run with cheese ******...Wow! That bad?
Go to Mosquito......as long as your the first guy in the blind that morning, the blind is yours. Someone else built it but legally you can hunt from it....(isn't socialism great?)
Hey Toner, I've found guys in my blind before and they've left. Of course I invited them to hunt with me since I had my boat and 80 dekes to put out. Mosquito can be crazy but at least I'm not there anymore so someone has to take my place.Go to Mosquito......as long as your the first guy in the blind that morning, the blind is yours. Someone else built it but legally you can hunt from it....(isn't socialism great?)
At mosquito I have had people in my blind also, some will leave, some don't, if they don't I just go to another one, I have never been asked to leave some ones blind, I would, just never have seen the owners. There is also pymantuning lake where the islands up north can be very good. Good Luck
So let me understand this correctly. You get drawn for a blind spot at mosquito, you pay and build your own blind, then someone else is allowed to hunt it as long as they show up first, even if you show up afterwards?
I would be the type to invite them to stay and hunt with me, but not the type to take kindly to them refusing to leave if I asked them to. At the very least, I'd park my ass right outside the blind and shoot at everything within 200 yards.
I would be the type to invite them to stay and hunt with me, but not the type to take kindly to them refusing to leave if I asked them to. At the very least, I'd park my ass right outside the blind and shoot at everything within 200 yards.
At the very least, I'd park my ass right outside the blind and shoot at everything within 200 yards.
Your right to do so. Enjoy your public hunting One of the many reasons I will never hunt public again.
I haven't hunted public in years other than lake Erie. I've also never put in for a blind draw like that. Is it public and you build your blind at your own risk, or is it a drawing where you draw for the right to that spot? If it's the latter, that doesn't seem right.
don't forget the islands are Pennsylvania
I haven't hunted public in years other than lake Erie. I've also never put in for a blind draw like that. Is it public and you build your blind at your own risk, or is it a drawing where you draw for the right to that spot? If it's the latter, that doesn't seem right.
You draw for the ability to build a blind on the site you choose, but it's public, anyone can hunt it. Like you, I haven't hunted public land in many years. Don't miss the BS at all.
At Mosquito you do not pay for your blind, that's why you can't force anyone to leave, the mangers will tell you that at the drawing
Gotcha. I'm not sure why anyone would bother to draw then.
Unless they've changed it, you don't have to pay. Secondly all the permit does is give you permission to build a seasonal structure to hunt from. The last several years I would build one nice box blind to hunt from and very few of those drawn would do that. The last one I built was an elevated 5x8 box blind with roof and then brushed up. I had $ in paint and wood plus 3 trips to build that blind. If I anticipated a problem with some one in my blind, I would carry my cordless screwdriver and could start to take it apart, there would be nothing they could do. Most blinds are no more than a bunch of brush piled up and no money is put into them. My reasoning has been that if they are in and standing on my private property, then I have a right to ask them to leave my blind. If it is not my private property, like standing on the dirt, I don't.So let me understand this correctly. You get drawn for a blind spot at mosquito, you pay and build your own blind, then someone else is allowed to hunt it as long as they show up first, even if you show up afterwards?
I would be the type to invite them to stay and hunt with me, but not the type to take kindly to them refusing to leave if I asked them to. At the very least, I'd park my ass right outside the blind and shoot at everything within 200 yards.
I've met many a good people while hunting at the lake but I've also met some jerks. It is also true that like the internet, people can misinterpret your actions so it is best to try and communicate clearly with neighbors and try to have a good relationship. I had one build their blind 90 yards from me one year, I paced it off. By the rules, they were supposed to be 200 yards away. I had put out a longline of divers that went out from the outskirts of my puddlers 80 yards. That means their blind was closer than my farthest decoy! (I've had divers in the middle of the lake turn and then come down the longline giving us an opportunity that we wouldn't have had otherwise.)
That makes sense. I guess I just don't understand why they do the drawing if that's the rules. Might as well just let people build temporary blinds at their own risk.Unless they've changed it, you don't have to pay. Secondly all the permit does is give you permission to build a seasonal structure to hunt from. The last several years I would build one nice box blind to hunt from and very few of those drawn would do that. The last one I built was an elevated 5x8 box blind with roof and then brushed up. I had $ in paint and wood plus 3 trips to build that blind. If I anticipated a problem with some one in my blind, I would carry my cordless screwdriver and could start to take it apart, there would be nothing they could do. Most blinds are no more than a bunch of brush piled up and no money is put into them. My reasoning has been that if they are in and standing on my private property, then I have a right to ask them to leave my blind. If it is not my private property, like standing on the dirt, I don't.
I've met many a good people while hunting at the lake but I've also met some jerks. It is also true that like the internet, people can misinterpret your actions so it is best to try and communicate clearly with neighbors and try to have a good relationship. I had one build their blind 90 yards from me one year, I paced it off. By the rules, they were supposed to be 200 yards away. I had put out a longline of divers that went out from the outskirts of my puddlers 80 yards. That means their blind was closer than my farthest decoy! (I've had divers in the middle of the lake turn and then come down the longline giving us an opportunity that we wouldn't have had otherwise.)
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